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homeowner 39 22.41%
renter 69 39.66%
stupid peace of poo poo 66 37.93%
Total: 174 votes
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klen dool
May 7, 2007

Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

Taitale posted:

and Ashburton.

Although it has improved a bit since a lot of migrant workers are on dairy farms.

No - I like those two places, Ashburton, not so much....

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swampland
Oct 16, 2007

Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action

Ghostlight posted:

Oh yeah, I was at a homebrew thing last night and I had a John Key beer.


The guy had photoshopped himself into a photo with John Key, and started talking about how brown beer was a working man's beer or something that I quickly zoned out of.


Me too, the bottle makes the beer look really appealing and nice but when you take a drink its all full of broken glass and waitress hair

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/hone-harawira-asks-president-obama-to-scrap-tppa-and-come-nz-for-a-feed-beers-q03617

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

I usually have a rather disapproving view on Hone's antics, but I gotta admit that this was pretty rad.

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.


How poo poo are their editors that they managed to misspell "Maori" and not catch it?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Did you guys see that Labour failed to reference a couple of quotes/paraphrases in their Future of Work paper? What's the bet it'll be a bigger story than the TPP on 3 tonight.

e: Hone's signature owns

exmarx fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jul 31, 2015

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

I wonder if that's part of it; maybe he knows how odd it makes him look, but since the media can't resist slamming him it'll get more airtime than a more formal letter would?

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

mirthdefect posted:

How poo poo are their editors that they managed to misspell "Maori" and not catch it?

I think that Hone had misspelled it?

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Generally if it's in square brackets it's something that they've added for clarity. If it was his mistake, you'd put in [sic] to indicate the error was in the original text.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
nope (square brackets means that it's been added to the quote)

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
Haha wow. Like I knew nz journos were bad, but...

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Fairfax fired most of their subeditors recently, and I wouldn't be surprised if other news orgs were doing similar.

Vulpes
Nov 13, 2002

Well, shit.

Exclamation Marx posted:

Fairfax fired most of their subeditors recently, and I wouldn't be surprised if other news orgs were doing similar.

You don't really need them when 90% of your articles are copy-pasted from the Sydney Herald.

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
I blame the unpaid interns with communications degrees from AUT(U)

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Exclamation Marx posted:

Did you guys see that Labour failed to reference a couple of quotes/paraphrases in their Future of Work paper? What's the bet it'll be a bigger story than the TPP on 3 tonight.

If a Paddy Gower makes a sensationalist statement on the news and no one's around to watch it, is he still relevant?

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

Exclamation Marx posted:

Fairfax fired most of their subeditors recently, and I wouldn't be surprised if other news orgs were doing similar.

Aren't most of Fairfax's subbies based on Sydney already and just send the electronic copies of the page layouts to the relevant printing press.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Vulpes posted:

You don't really need them when 90% of your articles are copy-pasted from the Sydney Herald.

Varkk posted:

Aren't most of Fairfax's subbies based on Sydney already and just send the electronic copies of the page layouts to the relevant printing press.

Fairfax's downsizing started in Australia, and I think it was even more brutal over there (press photographers etc).

-neutrino-
Nov 4, 2008

Ghostlight posted:

I've taken the step of simply highlighting on this map all of the not-completely-poo poo areas of New Zealand.



Auckland is poo poo

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

-neutrino- posted:

Auckland is poo poo

That is why it is the only area not hi lighted in grey.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

I finally figured out what I dislike so much about paddy gower. It's that he doesn't care about actual politics, like he doesn't seem interested in covering party policy or anything. He's only in it for the scoop and drama, basically the bullshit that makes politics and politicians so contemptible. He loving loves the worst part of politics

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
I think he wanted to be a sports reporter originally? And yeah, I don't think he has a partisan bias, he's just a bad political journalist who lets himself be led easily by e.g. the dirty politics brigade.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

I still think he leans right, his coverage of Labour stuff is often a lot harsher than National. You can see it in the assumptions he makes. Dude does a lot of conjecturing on twitter

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

fong posted:

I finally figured out what I dislike so much about paddy gower. It's that he doesn't care about actual politics, like he doesn't seem interested in covering party policy or anything. He's only in it for the scoop and drama, basically the bullshit that makes politics and politicians so contemptible. He loving loves the worst part of politics

not that he looks like a cartoon goblin?

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

bobbilljim posted:

not that he looks like a cartoon goblin?

That's more Tony Abbott, though.

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
Nah he's a lizard

klen dool
May 7, 2007

Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.
Watching some fine Nz cinema https://youtu.be/4m6BIvN3ggM

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Are they trying to do to horror what Kung Fury did with the 80s? Or is this some local knockoff of that Charlie film?

klen dool
May 7, 2007

Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

WarpedNaba posted:

Are they trying to do to horror what Kung Fury did with the 80s? Or is this some local knockoff of that Charlie film?

I dunno man but it was loving rad. Really a homage to the writer/directors love of metal and movies. Also, the govt paid for it :D

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



-neutrino- posted:

Auckland is poo poo

But not completely poo poo :eng101:

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

If this poo poo adversely effects my father's medication costs I will slit john key's throat.

what's he on

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/avancenz/status/627296601690640384

pro click

e: Shylocks!

exmarx fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Aug 1, 2015

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo
And people in this thread tell me antisemitism isn't alive and well in NZ. :allears:

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012


Parasitic internationalist shylocks? Is Prosser trying out for the National Front?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

A human heart posted:

Parasitic internationalist shylocks? Is Prosser trying out for the National Front?


25/10/06

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

El Pollo Blanco posted:

And people in this thread tell me antisemitism isn't alive and well in NZ. :allears:

Whoever said that has obviously never seen a newspaper comic depiction of John Key

dusty
Nov 30, 2004

fong posted:

Whoever said that has obviously never seen a newspaper comic depiction of John Key

Spiteski
Aug 27, 2013



On an article posted in my local bitching at poors information page about PM John "mate" Key shooting down a suggestion for longer Maori Language appreciation this little gem popped up.


gently caress PukekoheNew Zealand and all of it's shitheads.


Edit: I'd go back and cover up his name I missed in the first part, but he didn't cover up his lovely views so I'm not gonna bother.

Spiteski fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Aug 2, 2015

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
Do you guys seriously think Clare Curran just 'forgot to reference' sections of the Labour Future of Work copy? Reminder: It's Clare Curran.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

holy poo poo that makes me really sad. idk what history book that guy has read though, education in NZ flopped between all maori/no maori a bunch of times and it was always at the behest of the colonial govt

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edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

fong posted:

holy poo poo that makes me really sad. idk what history book that guy has read though, education in NZ flopped between all maori/no maori a bunch of times and it was always at the behest of the colonial govt

I bet he believes Moriori settled New Zealand before Maori as well. Or ancient Celts, one or the other.

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